A Radical’s Radical
In early May, a little over a week after President Barack Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Texas congressman Ron Paul staked out his position on the man who plotted...
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The Company Ron Paul Keeps
The Republican Jewish Coalition announced this month that congressman Ron Paul would not be among the six guests invited to participate in its Republican Presidential Candidates Forum. “He&...
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Concern for Egypt
Now that runoff results are in from the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections, it’s clear that the Islamists are running the board. As Samuel Tadros writes in the...
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The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilization
Soon after the World Trade Center towers fell, leaving ashes floating over journalist Lee Smith’s Brooklyn neighborhood, he left for Cairo to find out “why the Arabs hate us.” H...
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Iran’s Military/ Industrial/ Terrorist/ Political Complex
AKA, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, soon could have nuclear weapons.
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Blind Sheikh’s Son Killed in US Airstrike in Afghanistan
The son of the 'Blind Sheikh,' the spiritual leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group who is in a US jail for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, was killed in a US airstrike in Afgh...
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3 Egyptians Killed in Recent Predator Strike in North Waziristan
Friday's Predator airstrike in North Waziristan killed three Egyptians closely linked to the Haqqani Network. The son of the "Blind Sheikh," the leader of the Egyptian Islamic Group who is s...
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The Copts Will Fight
But they won’t win.
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Zuhdi Jasser’s Counter-Jihad
Co-authored by Seth Leibsohn Shortly after 9/11, many thought it was imperative to teach about and promote the heroes of that deadly day. One such hero...
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Awlaki’s Death a Delayed Counterterrorism Success
Anwar al Awlaki has reportedly been killed in an airstrike in Yemen, bringing an end to the life of one of al Qaeda’s most effective recruiters. Awlaki had an especially s...
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Early Warnings Ignored
September 11: A Decade Later
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How the Tragedy Made Canada a Bolder, Prouder Nation
How much has Canada changed in the last decade? Consider this: As the World Trade Center rubble was still smouldering, NDP Leader Alexa McDonough declared: “As responsible international cit...
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How the NYPD Gets Jihad Right
In a world of wishful thinkers, Commissioner Kelly is a realist.
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Death By a Thousand Cuts
See all those security lines? Just because al Qaeda's recent attacks haven't succeeded doesn't mean the terrorists are failing.
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Terror Strikes Norway
Just one year ago, authorities in Oslo broke up an al Qaeda-directed bomb plot that originated in northern Pakistan. Good intelligence, including intercepted emails between an al Qaeda planner an...
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Reading Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Mind
What is the successor to Osama bin Laden thinking?
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Last Superpower Standing?
Being a superpower is not like being a duke or an earl. It's not a hereditary title, not a status you retain however modest your circumstances become. Being a superpower is more like being t...
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The CIA and Al-Qaeda
In intelligence it’s not so much what you don’t know as what you won’t know. Al Qaeda was initially formed in 1988, when the Soviet Union announced the humiliating with...
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Are We Safer?
Yes, George W. Bush has made America more secure since 9/11.
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Treachery
The Senate Intelligence Committee's report on prewar statements is a disgrace.